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- yocouchdigga, on 06/27/2009, -0/+14the view from about 2:10 on is amazing...
- DJSeebs, on 06/27/2009, -0/+12I had the privilege to watch this launch live in a room full of the Northrop Grumman engineers who built LCROSS.
The project directors mentioned that when LCROSS impacts the moon early October, the plumes will be 60 - 80 kilometers high and VISIBLE FROM EARTH with a cheap telescope. Amazing. - DirtPile, on 06/27/2009, -0/+9Great story.
- vizerei, on 06/27/2009, -1/+8Click the HD button swifty.
- liquisoft, on 06/27/2009, -0/+6Awesome video.
Too bad the comments on youtube suck, as usual. - RockinAmadeus, on 06/27/2009, -0/+5Dugg for actually making some progress for the moon.....wait..why aren't there any colonies yet? I think we have "looked" at it for long enough.
I love Space - frankzeg, on 06/27/2009, -0/+5From an orbital mechanics standpoint it is valuable to launch closer to the equator since you benefit from the higher rotational velocity of the earth the closer you are to the equator. Of course it is handy to have a launch site that people actually want to live near- a problem with many true equatorial locations. It is very nice to be near an ocean and to have a "range" where you can drop rockets out of the air and not hurt anybody. This is why we fly low inclination stuff out of Florida and high inclination stuff out of Vandenburg AFB in CA.
As cool as the video is if you have never seen a launch you owe it to yourself to go someday. Especially if you can somehow get to a relatively close viewing area. The incandescent intensity of the flame from the engines and the sound they make cannot be really replicated on video. It is like a huge cutting torch with a noise consisting of a continuous explosion. The energy being released is like nothing else on earth- if you were really, REALLY close you could be injured and possibly killed just from the sonic intensity. - kd420, on 06/27/2009, -0/+5Wow, seems like you're not that high up and all of a sudden you can see the full curvature of the atmosphere, pretty cool.
- cyberdork, on 06/27/2009, -2/+7That's not HD!!!!
- inactive, on 06/27/2009, -2/+6I made a creampie in my pants watching that.
- vizerei, on 06/27/2009, -0/+4Ever since I was a kid these have been amazing. Space launch vehicle take offs are the most amazing things I have ever known.
HUMANS ***** YA! (Screw you bears) - Angelinakinsler, on 06/27/2009, -0/+4and it is really GOOD
- s4g4n, on 06/27/2009, -1/+5Yes, we know youtube.
- abadbronc, on 06/28/2009, -0/+4This is truly mind blowing. The speed, the distance, the technology. Wow!
- Jiuzton, on 06/28/2009, -0/+3Damn these comments suck!
Everyone is just trying internet memes to see how many diggs they can get, saying whatever it comes to mind first... I came in here to see what people thinks about this and how that represents our humanity how we're growing and stuff and then i find pure stupidity and memes over and over again! get over it. however this is pretty interesting and there are good comments about it. thanks - zaidis, on 06/27/2009, -1/+4I dugg it. Its amazing
- cyberdork, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3Click the HD button yourself idiot, and see the video in all it's sub NTSC quality glory.
Obviously you don't understand what HD means. - DeskFlyer, on 06/27/2009, -3/+6That Russian RD-180 engine sounds awesome.
- bunkka, on 06/27/2009, -0/+3simply amazing
- inactive, on 06/27/2009, -0/+3It's near the equator. The equator has the highest rotation speed on the Earth which helps catapult the rockets.
- DeskFlyer, on 06/28/2009, -0/+3Copied 4 hours in advance? I have time travel powers!
- DeadFox1, on 06/27/2009, -1/+4you copied it wrong.
fixed. "Kudos to the Russians. The RD-180 engines sound awesome! " - cyrix, on 06/28/2009, -0/+2I whisper "and beyond" every time my math professor says "to infinity."
- firebhaal, on 06/27/2009, -0/+2to infinity and BEYOND
- RAAFStupot, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1For your info, i just watched it, and yep, it was good.
- Shadowarriorx, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1Nope, the equator rotates faster than say the north pole or any other place on earth. Florida is the closest place to the Equator the US has. So less fuel/speed is needed to break free of the earth. Also, you have to launch the vehicle in the right direction. If you launch it one way its something like 17,500mph to leave earth, the other way is 19,000mph.
If you don't believe me, do the math. - dafragsta, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1I think that's the first time I've ever seen a launch from the point of view of the launch vehicle. That was kinda surreal. I kept waiting for the camera to shut off or something and when you see the flames and smoke just start behaving completely different and you can no longer hear them, you kinda know it's punched all the way through the atmosphere.
- vizerei, on 06/27/2009, -0/+1in a few months you'll have all of the pictures, orbit for LRO is straight to the moon at 30km from the surface (week or so to get there and get proper orbit), the LCROSS will go 500,000(km or miles?) away before return approach. LRO will get most of it's photography and topography done before LCROSS's return. LRO resolution is said to down to 2feet, so we should be able to see the lunar rovers.
Give it time :) - Yazilliclick, on 06/27/2009, -0/+1Nice video, interesting to see the change of burn the further it gets from earth.
- vizerei, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1By rover I meant the jeep-like vehicles they drove in, it will be a couple pixels wide and a few more than that long.
- RuthlessPirate, on 06/27/2009, -0/+1It's near the ocean so if something goes wrong they can dump the rocket in the water instead of in a populated area. Also, I think it has to do with the climate being favorable for launches.
- AmazingSteve, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1Make rocket goooo....... NOW!
- jcsoc, on 06/27/2009, -0/+1yeah, all those hurricanes and the heavy precipitation help a lot.
- motivatedguy, on 06/27/2009, -0/+1Does anyone know why NASA chose Florida to launch spacecraft?
- kaelyiesta, on 06/27/2009, -1/+2"why aren't there any colonies yet?"
It's a matter of necessity, practicality, economy or whatever you want to call it. The costs vs the rewards must be considered for anything we do. If someone wants to fly to jupiter and blow billions to do so, you have to realize that the rewards from that might not be sufficient. You have given people jobs, but to what end? They aren't producing value back into the economy other than having put someone on jupiter. So really you have just redirected some labor away from producing wealth for a society.
Such labor consumption is only 'good' if it's what society can rely on to maintain itself. Imagine if the government took half of what it taxes from us and gave it to NASA to build lunar colonies. There are some benefits to science from these investments that are useful, but that's a lot of our wealth being squandered to sustain a group of people living on another rock with no comparable return.
As science and technology developments continue, and as we increase our ability to be productive such things cost less and less relative to the society. Eventually, we could absorb such a cost without too much decrease in total productivity. Then it's just a question of when, and how much loss is our society willing to tolerate. - CBKBAMF, on 06/27/2009, -0/+0Awesome, makes me feel 8 years old again.
- s4g4n, on 06/27/2009, -1/+1Cool thanks, did you say 2 feet per pixel? A a rover would be a dot.
- kilsekddd, on 06/27/2009, -2/+2I'm glad to see that the original animators from the movie Heavy Metal have found work doing fiery thrust for NASA.
- Buzaow, on 06/27/2009, -1/+1That guys got an unhealthy obsession with hatches and storage.
- MogusMaximus, on 06/27/2009, -3/+3Photoshopped
- s4g4n, on 06/27/2009, -1/+1Are there any pictures of the moon taken by the LRO, if not by when? They said they are going to photograph the Apollo landing sites where you can see the rovers and such.
- DeskFlyer, on 06/28/2009, -1/+1You have "economics major" written all over you.
Space travel was never about monetary or tangible "return" on anything, ever. It's about exploration, which never guarantees anything. The primary payoff is scientific knowledge. No matter how dismaying the results may be, any information returned from a quest into space is quite invaluable, even if it means we can't return the actual expenses paid in the attempt of a goal, whatever it may be. - DirtPile, on 06/27/2009, -2/+2It's not like it's rocket surgery.
Dugg for NASA. - PowderedToasty, on 06/27/2009, -2/+1Go humans! You guys are awesome!
- DisruptionFL, on 06/27/2009, -5/+1I wonder if they will classify some of the photo's returned just like missions past.
- Dou6, on 06/27/2009, -8/+1FAAAAKE
- RAAFStupot, on 06/27/2009, -11/+2I dugg it without watching it because I know it will be good.
I'll watch it when I've finished downloading.
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